Chapter 12. Working with Java Streams

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Chapter 12. Working with Java Streams Terms in This Chapter Abstract class ASCII autoexec.bat file Buffering Caching Callable object Canonical path Chaining Character/byte stream Class hierarchy Concrete class Current directory Debug utility Design pattern File descriptor File path (relative/absolute) Flag Helper class Interface Java networking APIs Parameter Parent directory Polymorphism Path separator Prefetching Separator Single inheritance Slice Stream (binary/text) Source code Source file Token Unicode Streams are the Java programming language's way to support I/O. A stream can represent a file, a network connection, or the access of a Web site. Learning to deal with Java streams is essential for understanding Java's networking APIs. Most of the time conversion to and from the Java type system is transparent. When it isn't, this chapter will demonstrate how to do low-level type conversion straightforwardly. As If One Way Weren't Bad Enough The joke is that there are always two ways of doing things in Jython: the Python way and the Java way. For example, if you use Python to prototype for Java applications, you need to know how Java does it. You also need Java streams to do various forms of Java I/O, such as networking APIs.

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